Monday, December 28, 2015

This was pretty cool. We ended up baptizing the kids of Luciana. We have been working a ton with them and then Saturday we were all cooking some rice and melanesas and we got the text. "Pilar tambien va a bautizarse" ha we went crazy and called her and stuff and then like 20 min, later we get the other text "Pipi tambien va a bautizarse..." well you gotta see the videos we did right after that. In the end we had a really cool baptismal service and could see them get confirmed Sunday in the church.

For Christmas we spent it with a menos activo family that we are reactivating. Familia Tula. They are cool and super nice. They joke around like our family. We made some empanadas with them and some pizza and then watched all the fireworks and then by 12:30 we had to be in the pension. It was pretty cool. For new years we will be with a hermana Dora. She lives solo so we will pass it with her.

Transfers came and Eldet Campos left. Sucked but it is what it is. I now have a mini. Elder Castañares from Cordoba. He is dope. He is a convert as of November of 2014 and is waiting on his papers- He will prolly get them while we are together haha but it's like having another kid kinda. He is 24 and it will be cool to see how it goes. We have this lady that is "the chosen one" she is super awesome. She contacted us because one of her friends from Buenos Aires said we had a message for her. She will get baptised. We just gotta get her family with her. We taught her yesterday before we had to go to the terminal and.... she is cool. Her name is Mariel. And also the bishop's grandkid is Brian. He will get baptized this Saturday.

Monday, December 21, 2015

This week was pretty crazy. All the people that we had planned to come to
church on Sunday and be baptized didn't happen. One by one they kinda failed.
I think that's part of the plan. If we are in the house with a member ready to go
to church or in a house with pan de banana... Satan still has his ways.

We were talking with those twins that WERE gunna get baptized and one of
them will get baptized this Saturday no matter what. But the other one is kinda
scared and just when she was feeling good, her brother walks in and says. "Hey
if you get baptized, You're ugly"..... But we will keep helping them out. They
are super cool.

We have been helping Anibal out this week. He fell back into his
addiction and smoked marijuana cause he was stressed but this Sunday helped him
out alot. He knows a bunch and seems more like a college professor than
anything. But he is super cool and willing to change. We are talking with his
mom Norma and we have a service with them tomorrow.

Super crazy that this will be my last Christmas in the mission. I miss Christmas at home but there is something special about here in the mission for Christmas.

Hope Devin doesn't see Santa this year. I mean 16 years is alot but make
sure he gets to bed.

Love you guys and talk to you Friday!!!!!!!!!

Con amor

Elder Lindsay

Elder Lindsay decided to not shave his stache one morning to see if his companion would notice. Um Yeah, I think he did. lol

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

We had the baptisms of Luciana this last week. It was sad cause the
kids didn't get to get baptized with her. They all kinda got scared at the last
minute and didn't end up going through. But when they seen their mom get baptized
they all wanted to. So this weekend we will see a family there in the church
making convenios.

Also this last week David, the kid that was super into drugs didn't make it
to church but his mom did. They have a date for the 19th that he won't make but at least I think if the mom will come to realize that she needs to be
baptized too then she will do it. She only talks about him being a sinner and
him needing to change. It's hard to teach someone that doesn't want to be
taught but thank goodness the Spirit helps us out.

In total, Sunday night to Tuesday morning we road 20 hours 30 minutes on a bus to and from the Christmas Conference. It was awesome again. I finally
got to play some ball and threw around the ol pig skin. Missed that but also
to see the buds. Ha Elder Coombs ran into a wall. He has a huge goose egg now and
also an Elder Church from my group broke his arm yesterday. Ha pretty crazy
stuff but the best was listening to President talk. I was kinda sad thinking
about the whole I'll prolly never be in a Christmas Conference listening to deep
doctrine and laughing over contacting or daily planning. Gotta enjoy it while
it's here.

Hope everyone is doing good and read some of Lucas 2 in the ol Bible. Jesus
is awesome and hope everyone is safe for the holidays.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Yesterday we didn't have p-day cause today is day of the Virgin of the Valley. It's only in Catamarca but people come out from all over Argentina to worship the Virgin of the Valley. They go to extremes. Crawling miles to make promises with the Virgin. The best part is how hot it is today too. Hope no one dies.

This last week in church we confirmed Anibal and after gave him the priesthood menor. He is a stud. He use to be in prison doing drugs and now you wouldn't have known that he wasn't always a member. He likes to read so we got him a new bible. Also we had 5 other people in the church. Luciana came and will get baptised this Saturday with her twin daughters Pia and Pilar and also her other son Gabriel, but they call him Pipi ha. Saturday we had the activity, but like every other thing no members came. We were gunna give a little pump up thing to the ward but the leaders didn't come but Luciana and her kids came and we played soccer and pingpong and watched a movie. Por lo menos!! They are cool.

Also Sunday at church was David and his mom... David started doing drugs when he was 14 and is all sorts of addicted but is willing to quit so in the mornings we have been teaching him. He has a date for the 19th. During gospel principals class after we got done we asked how it was and he said he wanted to preach the gospel like us. He is 18 and dope as heck. But not like dopeing dope just dope ha.

We had interviews with President last Thursday and holly freak the dude is cool. I've been studying a fool the scriptures and thinking pretty deeply about them and then when I talk to President, he just opens up my mind and teaches. Hope after the mission I can keep up the whole church stuff and can be smart like that. We have the Christmas Conference this next Monday the 14th so we will be in Cordoba. A 6 hour bus ride there and then after 6 hours to return ha. I'm excited though. Just have to baptise Luciana first.

Last week I learned for prolly the 6th time in the mission to keep your treasures in the heavens and not the earth cause wherever your treasures are is where your heart is. If they are on the earth robbers, or VIRUSES can get them. Ha I lost all my pictures on my camera again... But at least for the last 7 months I'll have pictures :)

Freak, this morning when we woke up there were tons of stupid little maget worms on the floor. Freaking nasty as heck!! But we cleaned the pension very well yesterday so it doesn't make sense. I think it has to do with it being hot and humid during the night in the kitchen cause the door to the kitchen is seperate so it's hotter in there but yeah it's nasty. Ha we'll prolly burn down the whole pension now. Ha worked for us right?? haha.

Hey love you guys hope everything is going good at home. Christmas is awesome. The mission is cooler. Sorry but it's true. Wouldn't want to be in any other place than the mission. Hope everyone is safe for the holidays and besitos para todos!!